Machine tool



July 30 1940 E. woHLHAUPTER MACHINE T'ooL Filed Nov. 12, 1938 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented July 30,

moms Tool.

Emii Wohihauptei', stuttgart-Feuerbach,

Germany Germany July 31, 1937 Application November 12, 193s, sei-iai No. 240,123

d Claims.

'I'his invention relates to cutter heads and a more 'especially to devices of this kind in which there is arranged in the body of the cutter head or chunk to be xed to the spindle of the machine tool an axially displaceable cross slide carrying" the tool which on being displaced in radial direction enables the ycutting edge of the tool to 'be spaced'differently from the center of the cutter' head or chuck. i

Cutter heads and tum-out chucks are known' in which duringthe operation of the machine tool, a feed ring, which can be xed in position during revolution of the cutter head or chuck,

-moves, by means of a nger, a feed wheel and the cross slide.- Hithei'to it was impossible to 4change the 'speed of transversal movement of the cross slide during the' operation of the mament of -the slide another feed ring, adapted to chine. In orderto reverse the direction of movebe xed in position fand connected with feed fingers had to be provided.

It is an object of my invention to enable the direction andfspeed of movement of the cross slide to .be changed.

I obtain thisby arranging the fingers on the feed ring ,for angular movement, by means of a push button or f the like, in such manner, that clamping screw l serves for iixing the cross .slidej they can be made to engage either one or the other side of the respective feed wheelor may be held out of engagement with the wheel altogether. According as one or a plurality' of the ngers of the'wheel are made to act on the wheel,

the speed of movement of the cross slide can further be changed during operation.

In the drawings ailixed to this specification and .forming part thereof anembodiment of my in- `vention, is illustrateddiagrammatically by way of example.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is an axial section on the line'A-B in Fig. 4, showingr the parts in the positioncorre-l spending to automatic feed, A i

Fig. 2 is a similar axialsection, however viewed from the other side with the feed thrownin, Fig. 3 is an axial section onthe line C-D in Fig. 4 and 1 Fig. 4 is a plan view corresponding toFig. 3. Referring to the drawings, I is-the body of the cutter head or chuck, this chuck 'being arranged to be fixed for instance by means of a conical shaft in the working Spindle. 2 is the crossslide lwhich is'guided inthe b ody I in an exact carria-ge guide, a wedge-shaped ledge 3 providingi for an exact fit of the vslide andthe guide. A`

(ci. 27e-s) c `in position. As shown in Figs. l and 2, the slide 2 may be formed with a plurality of bores for the tool extending in parallel to the axis or in radial direction. Screws i `(Fig.,3) servefor iixing the tool in position inthe slide.

A check screw 6 provided in the slide 2 projects into a longitudinal groove 5 of limited length formed in the body I and thereby prevents the slide tool from being shifted beyond an admissible limit. Displacement of the slide is eifected by means of the spindle II, one half of which ismounted directly in the body I, the other half inthe cap I3 iixed in positionby means of a screw I2. On

Y the spindle Il is mounted a nut I0 which is fixed 15 the spindle to be rotatedzby means of a socket wrench, and an adjustable graduated ring I I which can be clamped in any desired positionby 20 means' of an axial screw I5 and three radial boltsj I 6 without the zero point of the' spindle, which vis required for centrifugal adjustment, being changed. The conical points of the bolts I6 co-4 act with the conical point bfythe set screw I5. 2liv On thespindle II is further mounted a toothed rim I1, which is operativelyv connected with a gear 20 rigidly connected with a coaxially mounted star wheel 2|.

feed ring 23 provided with fingers which are arranged to ooactwith the teeth of the star wheel v 2| and project axially lbeyond the slide 22. Cutter heads or chucks as described are. known 135 inthe art; According to this invention nowthe Y finger or fingers 25`are arranged on thefeed ring 23 for displacement and are so shaped that they are able to take up. apart from a neutral middle position, in which they do not act on `the wheel "0 2I, alsotwognal positions, in one of which'they act on the upper. and in the other one "on the lower teeth ofthe star wheel 'so that this wheel f is imparted rotation in one or the other sense.

position, in Fig. 2 in one of its end positions.' in

which it engages the upper teeth of the star wheel 2I. The rear face of the finger is formed with three ilat'portions, on which acts a spring 205K 4 'I'he star wheelz'i is sunk-in` -the circularly ground slide of the body I. v'this slide is guided for concentric movement a to fix the ring in one of the three positions. Into a lateral slot of the finger projects a press button 29 formed with a rack 18 meshing with the gear 3|. vOn the other side of the gear is mounted another push button 28, which also engages the gear 3| by means of a rack 1I.

In the middle (neutral) position of the finger 25shown in Fig. 1 the two push buttons 28, 23 are at a level (Fig. 3). On the button 28 being depressed, the gear 3| causes the push button 29 to be lifted and carries by means of the pin 38 the finger 25 upwardly into the position shown inFig. 2.

If the ring Z3, which can easily .be gripped by a fiuted sleeve 21, is held in this position, then during each revolution of the body l a tooth of the star wheel 2l strikes the finger 25 and the star wheel is then turned through the distance between two teeth. This rotation is transmitted at a corresponding ratio through the gears 20, I9, I8, i1 on the spindle 2l and the nut'IB and slide 2 are shifted radially through a corresponding distance.

By depressing the button 28 the bottom end of finger 25 may be carried into the path of the teeth of the star wheel 2l and then causes the star wheel and the spindle I I to be rotated in the opposite sense, whereby the slide 2 is shifted also in opposite sense. 4

The feed ring 23 is heid in its position by an annular cover 33 which is held down on thebody I by a ring nut 36. In the annular cover, which is formed with indentures 12 into which project the push buttons 23 and 29, a pin 3,1 carries a rockable driver 38 which in the normal position of Figs. 3 and4 extends horizontally, but can be turned intovertical position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. On the driver 38 acts from below a pressure plate 39 controlled by springs 88- which holds the driver in one of its` two positions. In the upright position the driver projects so far that it will strike any stop, such as 42, fixed on the machine. In that case the driver 38 and stop 42 automatically prevent the feed ring 23 from rotating and the cross slide 2 is then fed automatically. When the cross slide 2` has reached one\ of its end positions with the pin 6 reaching the end of the groove 5, the `resistance to movement increases, however the driver 38 can now give way by moving into its position of rest against the action of the spring 48.

Ah oil hole I3, lthrough which all parts of the chuck can be lubricated, is closed by a screw 4I.

The extent of the cross feed can be varied by providing two or three fingers 25 Vso that either one or two or three fingers can be made to act on the star wheel, whereby during a revolution of the chuck the star wheel is fed either by one or two or three teeth.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of con-- struction shown and described for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

I claim: Y

1. A tool head comprising a rotary body, a spindle mounted on said body, a cross slide mounted for longitudinal reciprocation on said spindle, a feed wheel operatively connected with said spindle, a. feed ring adapted to be maintained stationary with respect to said rotary body, said feed ring comprising at least one feed rocker, such feed rocker including two fingers extending in opposite directions, said fingers being disengaged from rsaid feed wheel in the medium position of said rocker, and means for rocking said rocker in either direction whereby to bring either finger intov engagement with said feed wheel so as to turn the same in one or the other direction.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein the means for rocking said feed rocker comprise push buttons adapted to move the rocker vfrom its medium position in either direction, and to thereby cause the iingers to engage the upper or lower portion of the feed wheel, respectively.

3. A device according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of feed rockersarranged along the circumference of the feed'ring, whereby to control the speed of the feed action von the cross slide in accordance with the number of feed rockers rendered operative with 'respect-to said feed wheel.

4. A device according to claim l, comprising a stationary stop and a corresponding stop provided on said feed wheel, one of said stops being mounted for displacement out of contact with the other stop.

` l EMIL WOHLHAUPTER. 

